Re: Re: 1TB Raid?

[Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may help - (or hinder!)

'*Cheap and Reliable RAID 5 Storage Compared'*
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20040625/index.html


ianh1000 wrote:

>Hi All.
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>Does Anyone here have an opinion/expierience with SATA?
> From the comercial space where I work they look cheap but are not
>designed to run 24x7, the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) in
>comparison with SCSI is very poor. I would be happy to use them in a
>PC but not sure about a file server. I would prefer a solution that
>used a hot spare disk myself. I guess it depends if you could reload
>all the data if you had to. My configurations can use 500+ spindles
>so the chances of one failing are high. This is work not HA at home
>by the way. Perhaps I am justy paranoid?
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>Ian
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>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Stuart Poulton"
><stuart.poulton@a...> wrote:
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>>For info here's some example pricing....
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>>4 ports SATA raid card and 4x250GB Maxtor drives    £812
>>8 port SATA Raid and 4x200GB Maxtor drives £735
>>8 port SATA Raid and 5x200GB Maxtors         £826
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>>Regards
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>>Stuart
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Chris Bond" <chris@l...>
>>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 8:15 PM
>>Subject: [ukha_d] 1TB Raid?
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>>Well sorta on topic for a change cos its for my HA stuff =)
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>>Just wondering the cheapest solutions people have found to
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>>a 1TB Raid.
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>>Looks like 4 x 250GB SATA drives are about going to be about £480.
>>Im not sure about what case to host these in or what raid card to
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>>for, i'd want RAID5 minimum on it incase on of the drives go tits
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>>and thats all my mp3's gone.  It also needs to be queit as it'll be
>>in my office.
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>>Phil found a nice firewire case that holds 8 ide drives, im a bit
>>nervous in using software raid because of the data on there.  SATA
>>drives are only about £2 more these days but offer better speed,
>>tider cables etc seems a more sensible choice than IDE.
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>>It would be nice if i had the option to upgrade by adding a few
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>>250GB drives at a later stage too, with RAID5 im taking about 33%
>>loss leaving about 670GB of space.  Then I can take it upto a true
>>RAID5 1TB later on.
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>>The lacie 1TB bigger disk looks amazing value for money considering
>>its size and connections on it (works out at about £660), but once
>>again its lacking RAID5.
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>>Any ideas or suggestions, without going OTT price wise - ideally
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>i'd
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>>like to come in no more than £600-700 for the lot which seems hard
>>considering all of the above.
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